Synchronicity

Delayed Synchronicity

In the Reign Empire, Main Capital's certain districts:

I am John Gun, 32 years old, divorced… or on verge of divorcing with my wife. In the end 'time' doesn't matter as I know the results.

As for why am I in this miserable situation? I am addicted to gambling. No, I am not. All I need is one big win, and I'll quit gambling. I am just waiting for that big money, an opportunity of lifetime.

Or so John Gun makes his excuse as he walked toward the gambling hall.

Now you may ask. What is there to gamble? No cards (except for the one Kuro made) exists in this world yet, neither the chips idea, nor the slot machine (which is destroyed in the moon… by Pekora) how do he gamble?

The answer were very easy. Although this world's countries is very outdated in term of entertainment industry—it doesn't mean it don't have any entertainment. Horse racing were one of the entertainment made in early.

And the ideas was simple: wouldn't it entertain the audience more if we added the feature of betting money on which horses win?

This idea then made complicated as the time passes in Reign Empire: so that people won't bet based on popularity, let's change the reward based on bet rate, which basically means more people bet on this horse = lower rewards with the minimum of 2.0x

Bunch of betting game with horse race as the center but among them, John Gun chose classic—the most simple one.

Clicking the buttons he chose the amount of money he'll bet.

'Hmm for first try of the day, I'll only choose a meager amount of 10 Golds (10$).' With that in mind, he chose the currency into gold and number appeared.

Clicking the button

1 number appeared. At this moment, he should have noticed it but he wasn't really paying attention.

Without even confirming the number because he was sure, he moved his finger to 0.

Clicking the button

0 appeared then. At this moment, this man wasn't aware that his whole body was shivering because he was thinking on which horse to bet on.

This man haven't even realised that the whole betting hall is on ruckus because all peoples in the building, around the building, outside the building, and inside the Reign Empire—no the entire world is shivering.

Although no one know why this is happening, this man was excluded from that fear from unknown… because he was too deep thinking on which horse to bet.

His action is too dumb if thought rationally that he is starting to look cute.

I decided! I'll bet on MacKing! MacKing is one time champion at the Getsuba Tournament. John Gun hesitated whether to bet on MacKing or BurgarDong because these 2 is one of the fastest.

But from his horse betting racing, although BurgarDong is faster than MacKing, it has less stamina than MacKing. Moreover, this track is rather special with a downhill at the 1,500 meters mark—making it the speciality of MacKing.

The entire race was 10,000 Meters. It'd be possible for MacKing, but it'd be hard for BurgarDong to run at max speed the entire race. Thus, MacKing is the right choice to bet at.

Although it's a shame that the money that will get returned to him is only 2.0x if he won. Perhaps because of the peoples around him thinking the same thought, the BurgarDong has 3.0x return rate meaning that less people bet on BurgarDong.

Our cute guy John Gun look around the horse and find it laughable for a horse to have a return rate of 238x.

'The horse name is…Urara and the rider is… Maou? Never heard of him. I better be careful and not accidentally click that guy just because he's next to MacKing.'

'Come to think of it… why is my hand shaking… no my who,e body is also shivering.'

Just as he sent his attention to his body, he forgot about his proceeding shaky finger… what is this adorably dumb creature?

Then *pochi* along with cute sound, he clicked a button.

'Gaaaah…. What am I doing… I actually bet on someone I don't even know…'

This guy held his head on the 10 gold he just wasted now… wait a minute.

Clicking the button

He is… starting to be nervous.

'I..I-I… I-I.. I hope it's just my-my imagination…'

The ticket was out from the and the number of currency he bet was written on it.

111,000 Golds…

"WHAT THE &*¥#!?!?" He shouted loudly.

However because everyone was busy caring about shivering problem, it didn't gather attention.

'Calm down, me. Rub your faces, and look, at, the number again. Maybe I may have mistaken the numbers… no, seriously.'

John Gun did so, then looked at the number once again.

1 1 1 , 0 0 0

'Ffffffffuuuuu… no, am I drunk? No, first of all I've never even drink an alcohol in my life.'

Yes, despite his gambling problem, this guy had rather unrealistically healthy diet.

After a few ground stomping and head shaking because of his dumbness, John Gun lost the light in his pupils, then completely gave up.

"Ha, haha… it's a good time to quit gambling, isn't it…?"

Rather than gamble, he actually meant his life. It's not that he's going to kill himself. No, his action from previous may be the one that caused him to kill himself.

If he didn't went far too serious with horse gambling, all of this may have not happened.

If he didn't get addicted with gambling, he may still have a loving wife waiting for his home return.

If he didn't make a mistake right now… no, nothing would have changed. The changing point is, whether to die now, or keep rotting until I die.

Thinking about it, this mistake may have turn out for good… I am sorry Finia, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have been this unhappy. If I had a second chance…

Clinging to the rope that was about to break at any moment, he brought the ticket with him as he watched the horse race that was about to begin.

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At this moment, Kuro was sleeping—having a weird dream.

At his rather comfy bed, there a silhouette passed as the moonlight created a shadow stuck on the floor, it moved fast enough to last a blink. It moved slow enough to capture it's hair shadow dancing.

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Despite this being a dream, Kuro felt a poke behind him.

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"WAAAAAAAH"

Kuro bounced from his rough bed and hit his head on the ceiling. His back was sweating like a bullet and his whole body was shivering.

'Damn it, what did you show me 21 (5).'

'Me…mor…y. (21).'

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